Lucha Libre to attack bullying while in San Antonio

The Lucha Libre USA‘s Masked Warriors Live Tour will be in town Friday night at the Alamodome. Before they get to their spectacular, outrageous matches, two of them will make stops at several San Antonio elementary schools to attack a major opponent: bullying.

Wrestlers Mini Park and Rocky Romero will raise awareness about the devastating issue in an effort to combat this disturbing statistic from the National Center for Education Statistics: a third of students 12 to 18 report being bullied in school, some almost daily.

Park and Romero will visit De Zavala and Beacon Hill elementary schools on Wednesday. I’ll be there to report a story for the San Antonio Express-News.

The Mexican pro-wresting tour has been unfolding across the country, in a lot of big Latino markets, where the Lucha Libre style of wrestling is popular, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin.

The tour will include villian RJ Brewer, the controversial new wrestler who introduces himself as the son of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and thus a supporter of its controversial anti-immigration law SB 1070. Here’s an Associated Press story about him, and here’s one from the Los Angeles Times.

Lucha Libre USA bills itself as the only company in the country dedicated to Mexican pro wrestling.